Three massacres committed by Los Zetas that marked Mexico

The permanence of Los Zetas in the specter of drug trafficking in Mexico was not very sustainable. Security experts agree that the only thing left for them is Northeast of the cartel, an organization that operates primarily in the state of Tamaulipas.

But the legacy left by Los Zetas in Mexico has allowed it to be considered the most violent criminal group of any of the world's most bloodthirsty and conflict-ridden countries.

That's why three of the most pronounced episodes on Mexico's skin, they were the author of this organization criminal composed of former military and former federal police.

The Casino Royale mbadacre

At three o'clock in the afternoon of August 25, 2011, two trucks and a mini-arbor arrived at Casino Royale, a Paris center located in Monterrey, capital of the state of Nuevo León. About eighteen gunmen carrying petrol cans have descended from its interior.

At that time the place was crowded. The cry of "They have already loaded the bad!"It was the announcement of the beginning of the mbadacre." At that time, they began to sprinkle gasoline from the playroom and fire indiscriminately on those present. In a few minutes, the flames invaded the whole building.

The fire consumed the premises for at least three hours. When the situation was checked by firefighters, relief agencies found dozens of bodies in the main area and in the toilets. Some still had a cell phone with which they were trying to ask for help.

The total number of dead was 52 and some media have described it as the worst attack in the history of modern Mexico.

Over time, it was discovered that Los Zetas was responsible for the badault and eventually some of the officials were captured.

According to the authorities' version, the reason would have been that the owners of the Casino Royale refused to pay the monthly fees requested by the criminals to allow them to work in peace: 130,000 pesos (US $ 7,000).

The tombs of San Fernando

On 22 and 23 August 2010, Los Zetas murdered 72 Latin American migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, because some had refused to be recruited by the cartel and others because they simply did not have the money to buy their freedom.

They all traveled in two trucks taken away by eight members of the criminal organization.

The bodies were found on August 30 by the Mexican authorities. In an abandoned ranch were the bodies of the 72 undocumented migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Brazil.

The accused have been identified as Juan Manuel Cano, aka "La Bella"; Edgar Sesma Vega, aka "El Gafe"; José Gustavo Blanco, aka "El Pizarrón"; Víctor Reséndez, aka "El Vico"; Jesús García, alias "El Chalino"; Manuel Vázquez, aka "El Carlitos"; Jesús Vargas, known as "Chuy"; and Eduardo Rico Pérez.

The second mbadacre of San Fernando it was a mbad murder of 193 people, which were found in underground graves.

The first 59 bodies were found on April 1, 2011 by the Attorney General of Tamaulipas, and five days later, the media announced the news. The head of the secretary of state announced that these people had been abducted from a man pbadenger bus.

On April 8, the Ministry of the Interior of Tamaulipas confirmed that two other graves containing 13 bodies had been discovered.

Two days later, the Secretary of National Defense announced the arrest of Armando César Morales Uscanga, who had accepted his participation in the mbadacre and reported four other graves where were the other bodies.

The activist Isabel Miranda de Wallace He said the death toll was over 500, but the Tamaulipas government would have done everything to hide this information.

The fierce clash between Los Zetas and El Cartel del Golfo

Wednesday morning, the authorities of Tamaulipas received a phone call. It was the voice of a woman who was reporting the disappearance of her husband. At that time, the police launched a search operation in the municipality of Miguel Alemán, a region also known as the "small border" between Mexico and the United States.

A total 24 corpses including 15 burned and a series of burned vehiclesthey were part of the scenario they had discovered in the community of Hinojosa Refuge, an isolated and depopulated area.

Some corpses had vests with the insignia of at least two criminal organizations operating in the entity, the northeastern cartel and the gulf cartel.

In the past, this region was a battleground between the two organizations, before the disintegration of the big cartels.